Beck and Beck Chap 7-8

Question 1

What is Word Building

Answer 1

Activity that supports decoding and word recognition by giving students opportunities to consistently experience and discriminate effects on a word of changing one letter

Question 3

Self-teaching process

Answer 3

Supported by full alphabetic knowledge; engagement in alphabetic decoding may serve as self-help mechanism that helps readers progress from early attempts to pronounce new words toward fluent/accurate word recognition

Question 4

Empirical results from Word Building

Answer 4

Students who had inadequate reading skills after 1-3 years of schooling engaged in Word Building for 20 sessions made significantly greater progress on standardized tests of decoding, comprehension and phonological awareness

Question 5

Word Building Procedure

Answer 5

The teacher starts a lesson by using her large cards to make the first word, sit, in
the pocket chart. The teacher reads the word, asks the children to read it, and tells
them that she is going to change one letter in sit to make a new word.

Tell students that it’s their turn to build words, and that you will tell them which
letters to use. Have students arrange the letter cards near the top of their desks - write each new word in column on board, have students read column of words aloud

Question 6

Benefits to Word Building

Answer 6

Full decoding - discrimination from other vowels (new from learned phonic element)

Attention to all letters in word

More attention to vowels (solidifies letter-sound correspondences)

Can fill in for missing phonics

Question 7

What to do with mistakes?

Answer 7

Show the child the difference (write hot and hat, ask whats different)

Question 8

How to connect word building to text?

Answer 8

Decodable text, silly questions (connection to text, read complete thoughts, practice decoding with particular patterns, require comprehension)

Question 9

Variations to Word Building

Answer 9

Have a student volunteer read words
Subgroups read word together

Question 10

Advantages to whole class word building

Answer 10

Entire lesson completed at one time

Question 11

Disadvantages to whole word building

Answer 11

Planning, organization and workl

Question 12

Small group word building advanatges

Answer 12

Less work, less organizing, help individual students

Question 13

How to decide whole vs. small group?

Answer 13

Try both!